Crassula ovata flowers

These Crassula ovata flowers were seen in the Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden in Worcester during July. The dense inflorescences are shallowly domed, the pedicels dark red.

The pointed, white petals spread star-shaped, slightly angled up with the hint of pink more on the outer surfaces and in the flower centres. Five thick short nectary glands or squamae are visible, free in each flower base. The thin, thread-like filaments hold their tiny, globular anthers erect, spread above the flower centres.

The flower is 1 cm in diameter, the branched-head inflorescence about 8 cm (Euston-Brown and Kruger, 2023; Smith, et al, 2017; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; iNaturalist).